Capes for beauty parlors and barber shops



Jan. 31, 1961 A. M. HERSCHENSOHN 2,969,548

CAPES FOR BEAUTY PARLORS AND BARBER SHOPS Filed May 15, 1959 I H! H" 9 FIGJ l I 6 Q .iL

INVENTOR, 3 ARTHURM-HERSCHENSOHN ATTORNEY United States PatentO CAPES FOR BEAUTY PARLORS AND BARBER SHOPS Arthur M. Herschensohn, Scarsdale, N.Y., assignor to Corona Hair Net Corp., New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York Filed May 13, 1959, Ser. No. 812,997

2 Claims. (Cl. 252) The present invention relates to improvements in protective capes of the type worn by customers in beauty parlors and barber shops, as for instance those Worn While getting a shampoo or haircut.

Heretofore, adjustment of neck size in capes of the class mentioned was effected by use of a drawstring or by the addition and subtraction of definite lengths along the neck band, or by the use of some slide fastener device. Draw strings loosen, lose an end which pull into the hem and need to be rethreaded, and its tying by knot or bow is rather bothersome. In constructions offering adjustment of neck size by definite distance changes, there are required series of cooperating snap elements, hooks and eyes, button and button holes and in some instances, hanging strap lengths, all of which materially increase the cost of manufacture. Slidable fastener means require special structure along the neck band for cooperative association with a slide element. Here too, the cost to manufacture is comparatively high.

It is therefore the principal object of this invention to provide a novel, improved and cheap cape construction offering quick and easy progressive adjustment of neck size so that it can be made to fit any neck and which does not have any supplementary cooperative means as a permanent fitting secured along the neck band.

Another object thereof is to provide a novel and improved protective cape of the character set forth which is simple to make and use and which is efiicient for the purposes it is designed for.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as this disclosure proceeds.

For the practice of this invention, one form it may assume, is to have a clamping hook in extension of each end of the neckband respectively. Each hook may be a flat tab of springy sheet metal which is positioned substantially in a vertical plane when the cape is in use. The tab, near its free distal end, has a cut-out which is inverted U in shape. One distal end of said U-shape being open and the other end closed. Such cut-out may also be described as an inverted U-shaped notch Whose entrance is at the bottom edge of the tab. This construction provides a cantilever spring clamping finger which extends upwards and is free at its upper end, and also a hook. Dimensions are so chosen that when the bail of the hook is set to straddle the neckband to close it, the spring finger will be stressed and act to clamp the tab in releasably fixed position at any desired point along the neckband.

I will now set forth a detailed description of the preferred embodiment which is shown in the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this "ice specification, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary pictorial view of a cape embodying the teachings of this invention. The neck band is shown open.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, but the neck band is shown closed.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary elevational view of the neckband when closed by one of the hook clamps.

In the drawing, the numeral 15 designates generally a cape whose open neckband 16, in extension of each end thereof, has a springy sheet metal tab secured thereto by, for instance, the eyelets 17. Thesetabs are fashioned to serve as releasably engaging clamping hooks to straddle the neckband at any desired position therealong. They are respectively denoted by the numerals 18 and 19 and being identical, a description of one, will suffice for the other.

The clamping hook 18 is formed by providing the inverted U-shaped notch 20 starting at the bottom edge of the tab near its free distal end. This gives the tab a slim springy clamping finger 21 which is upright with its top end free, and in action, a sort of cantilever. To increase the resiliency of said clamping finger, the closed end of the U-notch may have a very short outward branch 21'. Said notch in the tab, also provides the rigid downwardly extending finger 22, at the free end of said tab.

When the clamping hook 18 is set so that the neckband 16 is within the notch 20 between the fingers 21 and 22, and the thickness of the neckband exceeding the distance between said fingers when compressed thereby, the resilient finger will be sufliciently bent and stressed, to clamp the neckband between said fingers, and thus maintain any required neck size, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

When the-cape 15 is in use as shown in Fig. 2, the end length indicated by the numeral 23 of the neckband having the clamping hook 18 thereon, overlaps and is outside the other end length 24 of said neckband. The finger 22 of the clamping hook 18 will be on the inner face of the neckband portion 24, and the finger 22' of the clamping hook 19 will be on the outer face of the neckband portion 23.

When the finger 21 is made resilient enough, it will permit sliding of the clamping hook along the neckband by a slight manual force, but its clamping action should be sufficient to hold the set neck size. Or, if desired, the width of said finger 21 may be made a bit wider, so that it will only act as a clamp of suflicient bite into the neck band, to avoid sliding movement of the clamping hook.

This invention may have numerous forms and various applications and be made of any suitable materials without departing from the essential features herein disclosed.

It is therefore intended and desired that the embodiment shown herein be deemed illustrative and not restrictive and that the patent shall cover all patentable novelty herein set forth; reference being had to the following claims rather than to the specific showing and description herein to indicat the scop of this invention.

I claim:

1. A cape having a free edge for encircling the neck of a wearer; said edge having free ends which overlap when the cape is worn and a tab of stiif springy material secured to one of said ends in extension thereof; said tab having an inverted U-shaped opening therethrough; the distal end of one arm of said U-shaped opening, being open and commencing from the very bottom edge of said tab and the distal end of the other arm of said U-shaped opening being closed and ending near said bottom edge of the tab whereby an upwardly extending resilient finger is formed between the arms of said U-shaped opening; said finger being in the plane of the tab it is part of; any region of said neck-encircling edge of the cape, which is overlapped by a tab when the cape is worn, being enterable across the bottom edge of said tab and into the open arm of the U-shaped opening in such tab, where- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 403,567 Wales May 21, 1889 2,114,074 Eidinger Apr. 12, 1938 2,335,903 Beckett Dec. 7, 1943 

